Description: These are poignant and startling tales from the heartland of a nation, gracefully and compassionately exposing the extraordinary interior lives of ordinary people. From a young wife and mother's memories of the effects of a rape trial on her small community to an elderly widow's ordeals with the ghost of her late husband, to a gifted teenager's reckless and religious addiction to theft in the Nelson Algren Prize-winning title story, these brief but powerful works offer a rare glimpse into the complexities of being human, tempering loneliness with wisdom, and spiritual emptiness with hope.

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